The investigation conducted with respect to the claim that Boru Hatları ile Petrol Taşıma A.Ş. violated article 6 of the Act no 4054 by unfairly interrupting the natural gas supply which was used by Bis Enerji Elektrik Üretim A.Ş., operating the field of electricity generation and sales, for its generation activities, thereby complicating the operations of the aforementioned undertaking and causing discrimination.

The investigation was launched following the annulment of the Competition Board decision dated 14.10.2010 and numbered 10-65/1372-510 by the decision of the 13th Chamber of the Council of State dated 22.03.2016 and numbered E: 2011/1129, K: 2016/778.

The investigation, initiated with the Competition Board decision dated 10.08.2016 and numbered 16-27/457-M, took the points raised in the aforementioned court decision into consideration and examined whether article 6 of the Act no 4054 was violated by Boru Hatları ile Petrol Taşıma A.Ş.

As a result of the discussion of the file by the Competition Board on 27.04.2017, it was decided that Boru Hatları ile Petrol Taşıma A.Ş. did not violate article 6 of the Act no 4054 and therefore it was not necessary to impose administrative fines on the relevant undertaking under article 16 of the same Act.

Click here for the text of the pronouncement (in Turkish) for the decision dated 27.04.2017 and numbered 17-14/207-85, the reasoned version of which will be notified later and which can be appealed before Ankara Administrative Courts.